Reasons for rejection

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Possible reasons for rejection include:

• Doesn't offer geographical context - sunsets, cloudscapes and silhouettes may fall into this category.

• Family snap - while people can be in the photo, they must not be the photo.

• Inappropriate content - any image containing material inappropriate for minors.

• Too dark - no detail visible. What shows some detail on your computer screen may not show any on other screens.

• Too small - longest dimension of image must be at least 480 pixels, preferably 640. If over 640, the site re-sizes to 640.

• Digital alterations to the image[1], e.g. to add a frame, dates, texts, etc., or to create a montage. - Note that just the Date Stamp added by a camera, is unlikely to cause rejection, but is however STRONGLY discouraged.

• Excessive HDR. While High Dynamic Range techniques can often be used to restore detail in light and dark areas of an image, if used to excess it can result in unnatural looking image. Such images can certainly be striking, they are not really suitable for Geograph.

• Needs to be rotated - edit and resubmit.

• Not rectangular, image should be cropped to a clean rectangle, so maximum amount of image is usable, and resubmitted.

• It appears that image has not been taken by submitter. Note we do have a process so valid Licensors can submit content on behalf of the Original Author, but this requires the two parties to be known to each other. Among images which should not be submitted are those in the public domain, those with expired copyright like old postcards, and images already released under a creative commons licence by others.

• Image or description is substantially an advertisement. Submitting a photo of your own premises is welcomed but a description which is an advertisement is unwelcome. Note that you can put a web link and information about yourself in your profile.

• Image is identical to one already submitted, or is almost identical to one already submitted and is taken on the same day from about the same position such that it appears to add insufficient geographical content to that already submitted.

We keep rejected submissions on file, and they will appear in the list of images in your geograph profile, so if you think your image has been incorrectly rejected (and mistakes do happen!) please use the "edit picture information" on the screen for your image, and explain the problem in the box "Please tell us what is wrong...".

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[1] A little tweaking of brightness/contrast and/or rectangular cropping is fine and encouraged.